The sporting heroes who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law

OJ Simpson remains the most notorious, although he was acquitted by a jury in
1995 of the murder of his wife Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Two
years later a civil court found Simpson, the first professional American
football player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, liable for
their wrongful deaths. In 2007, he was arrested in Las Vegas in connection
with a separate matter, charged with armed robbery and kidnapping and given
a sentence of 33 years.